@douglasparker said in Good start:

Jellyfin developers refuse to take money. While I appreciate them wanting to offer something truly free, it really makes me feel like it will always be on a volunteer basis.

This can be be such a touchy subject. There is nobility in building something great and giving it away for free, but it comes with some really big trade-offs. People have bills to pay and family to feed, and skilled developers will have to choose between working for free, or working for high paying tech companies. It's difficult to attract talent on open source projects. I've seen Jellyfin's "A Call for Developers" post and it highlights the difficulty of the situation.

@douglasparker said in Good start:

I've also seen pull requests for requested features get closed because they want to do things themselves rather than work with the original dev to get it up to their standards. For example skip intro.

:/

@douglasparker said in Good start:

The biggest problem is none of them besides Plex offer Watch Together.

I think I have some really great ideas for how remote watching should work. I don't want to over promise anything here but I'm really excited about this.

@douglasparker said in Good start:

I think Cardinal Apps have a very good chance of doing extremely well in the market. Paid plans is important so Cardinal can be worked on full time.

Thanks. I'm looking forward to growing things organically.